Harwich Diving Services

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UK Diving Services Harwich are a leading provider of diving and marine services in Harwich and across the UK.Our teams of professional divers in Harwich operate to strict guidelines set out by the UK's Health & Safety Executive.UK Diving Services Harwich provide diving services in Harwich to assist companies and organisations with their underwater assets and projects in Harwich and across the UK.As a leading Harwich diving contractors our company has been heavily involved with the 2012 Olympics, providing underwater cable laying, water safety and work boats to several large contractors during the construction phases.Our Harwich diving services are available for underwater inspection, underwater maintenance and repair, underwater cutting, underwater demolition,underwater construction and water safety.All our commercial divers hold HSE part1, HSE dive medicals and HSE first aid as standard. For inspection purposes each diver will hold 3.1U and 3.2U CSWIP NDT. In addition each diver will hold any job specific experience and qualifications.Our diving supervisors all have extensive experience in working both inshore and offshore waters.

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UK Diving Services re-visit Persley Bridge And Bridge Of Dee in Aberdeen to undertake point cloud 3D sonar and topographic surveys of the structures. The data was compared to previous surveys of the the structures to determine the extent of any scour or undercut to the bridge. Additionally dive surveys were undertaken to examine the condition of the structure piers and abutments. The project was co-ordinated on behalf of Bear Scotland and Transport Scotland

UK Diving Services have been contracted on behalf of CAPITA to provide a river wall condition survey to determine suitability prior to the construction of a new road to link to the new River Wear crossing. The new road bridge will be a two span cable stayed bridge with an A-frame pylon rising to 105m crossing the River Wear between Castletown and and Pallion. The new bridge will have two lanes of traffic in each direction, plus cycleways and footpaths along its full length. Our dive team inspected a variety of structures along the wall from concrete piers and sheet pile walls to areas of timber fenders and rock embankments.

UKDS are providing safety boat services in central London on the river Thames. Our 7.2m RIB is equipped with all the latest safety equipment required by the Port Of London Authority to operate a rescue boat on the tidal Thames. Last year UKDS operated a safety boat on behalf of Mackley at London Bridge whilst the new staircase was being fabricated and installed adjacent and over the waterway. During the 6 month operation our crews rescued 3 persons from the river Thames.

UKDS have secured a river wall inspection in Sunderland north east England. The survey involves underwater inspection of the tidal river wall over several hundred meters. Due to likely poor visibility within the area divers will be using tactile probing methods of inspection backed by 2d sonar images.

UK Diving Services have been awarded and undertaken 30 bridge inspections on behalf of GCC via SWECO a third party. The bridges include most of the roadway bridges on both the tidal and non tidal river Clyde. The inspections included underwater sonar and video recorded to BCI format.

UK Diving Services are currently working on the Thames Tideway project on the tidal river Thames at Battersea and London Gateway. We are providing a 7.5m Port of London Authority coded RIB for safety and rescue boat operations on and within the waterway estuary.

The Thames Tideway Tunnel is an under-construction 25 km (16 mi) tunnel running mostly under the tidal section of the River Thames through central London, which will provide capture, storage and conveyance of almost all the combined raw sewage and rainwater discharges that currently overflow into the river.

After severe flooding earlier this year UK Diving Services assisted with an urgent requirement to provide underwater surveys to several bridges on the river Dee and Don to assess their structural integrity. The surveys were completed on time successfully and written reports and video footage submitted. Other bridge inspections were also undertaken on smaller waterways including some confined space access

UK Diving Services win a confined space access contract with AECOM. Services include providing access to flooded culvets where diffrential pressure and other site specific hazards are present. The inspection will include cctv, UT readings and ndt.

This RIB has awesome sea keeping capabilities along with a substantial power delivery from its DF200HP Suzuki engine. This is a go anywhere RIB thats now available for RIB charter and hire in the UK. Call us today to hire this RIB with commercial skipper and crew. Click here to see the XS RIB in action as used by the police.

UK Diving Services Ltd have taken delivery of a new aluminium lifting barge to assist with our day to day diving and marine operations. The vessel comes complete with spud legs for extra stability for lifting heavier loads onto the large storage deck. The vessel is road transportable so can mobilise to any UK location at short notice. Lifting capabilities are up to 5 ton. Call our team for further information if you wish to hire or charter this pontoon lifting barge.

UK Diving Services Ltd are currently engaged in safety and rescue boat operations at London Bridge on the tidal Thames in London. We are providing safety support to operatives working above the waters edge whilst constructing and assembling platforms. Our safety boat is a PLA licensed vessel and we operate under local knowledge endorsement LKE

UK Diving Services Ltd recently undertook an inspection of a bridge with flooded box beams.The inspection involved surveying inside the chambers of the flooded box beams including the voids and diaphragms between them. CCTV footage was taken during the inspection.

UK Diving Services Ltd recently undertook a visual/condition survey of the 126m partially flooded Six Bells culvert in Abertillery, Wales. In addition to the visual inspection our confined space engineers took laser measurements to determine the line of the culvert/tunnel.

UK Diving Services Ltd provided the diving expertise to assist Commercial Boat Services with recovering a sunken Camper & Nicholson motor cruiser on the river Trent in Nottingham. Our 5 man HSE dive team attached 6no x 5ton IBU's to the the vessel whilst she was laying on the river bed at Holme lock. Once the motor cruiser was re-floated the team from CBS towed her to a local crane site where she was lifted to shore in one piece.

UK Diving Services Ltd provided safety boat services whilst operatives took core samples and screw pulls along Albert Embankment as part of the Thames Tideway Tunnel project. As part of any works on the tidal Thames where operatives are working on the foreshore the PLA (Port Of London Authority) require a safety boat to be in position in the event the tide were rise and cut off any person from safe egress. Other considerations are swells up to 1.2 m from passing vessels. Our team were security checked by the MET Police.

UK Diving Services recently provided a licensed rescue boat with qualified crew for safety boat operations whilst operatives were working over fast flowing water. Workmen assembled scaffold over a rail bridge spanning the river Lune at Arkholme in the Lake District. Rainfall and flow levels were monitored continuously to allow work to progress safely.

UK Diving Services Ltd deployed a commercial dive team to inspect the underside of HMS Gleaner whilst she was moored at Harwich. The ships commander was experiencing vibration at increased rpm. Our diver found and removed nylon netting from the starboard propeller and prop shaft solving the technical issue.

On the 22nd July 2013 UK Diving Services Ltd were contacted to assist with locating a missing pilot presumed lost at sea when his Cirrus aircraft crashed into the English Channel less than 24 hrs earlier. Rescue efforts were called off by the Coastguard and RNLI after wreckage was found off the Dungeness coast.

UK Diving Services Ltd liaised with the RNLI who provided us with the times and co-ordinates of the area where the floating wreckage was last found. Because the exact impact zone was unknown and the depths of water were beyond practical air diving limits it was necessary to locate the aircraft using sonar and ROV's. The search pattern information we obtained was passed to the sonar and ROV team who used the information to help locate the aircraft.

UK Diving Services Ltd were contracted in to provide rescue and safety boat services for operatives working in shallow water underneath a rail bridge in Yorkshire. In addition our company provided floating platforms and work boats to assist with the essential bridge maintenance. The scaffold was erected and dismantled one arch at a time so not to overload the weak bridge.

UK Diving Services Ltd were recently contracted in by Prodem Ltd for a striking of a scaffold next to the Limehouse Cut in east London. Our safety boat team provided rescue and safety boat services at the east London location whilst operatives worked near the waters edge.

UK Diving Services Ltd were contracted in today to Southampton docks by Carnival UK to remove a mooring line sucked into a bow thruster of the cruise ship Queen Victoria. On arrival at port side 5 hrs prior to the ships scheduled departure our dive team were made aware of a mooring rope snagged to the underside of the forward section of the ships hull. On investigation it was found the line had been pulled into the thruster duct. Our diver removed the line within a couple of hours and the vessel sailed as scheduled

UK Diving Services were contacted by EGS Surveys to find and recover a lost magnetometer off of the Harwich coast. The magnetometer was lost whilst EGS were surveying an area to map sunken vessels. Our commercial dive team deployed from the port of Harwich and anticipated diving both the high and low tidal windows to allow optimum chance of success. The magnetometer was found and recovered on the first dive at high tide...a good result for all parties!

UK Diving Services Ltd recently undertook an interesting tank dive for Seaflex Ltd where an inflatable mattress was inflated and placed on the surface of the water inside the tank whilst operatives broke open an opening in the roof of the sprinkler tank. The purpose of the operation was to install new hatches to allow for easier access in the future. The purpose of the inflatable matress was to catch falling debris so there was no risk of any material entering the sprinkler system and causing any blockages. Our divers entered through narrow access channels in the side of the tank.

UK Diving Services Ltd are providing on going safety and rescue boat hire services for SkanskaBalfour Beatty JV whilst operatives are assembling scaffold to the underside of the M25 carriageway crossing the river Lee. Our company with its extensive background in underwater and marine services is providing water safety and boat traffic marshaling throughout the duration of the project.

UK Diving Services Ltd were instructed to survey a large fire water storage tank near Liverpool which had a faulty pump. Our professional divers found the sprinkler tank had small amounts of debris inside and concluded they were sucked into the pumps impeller causing pump failure...as proven upon isolation and removal. Our teams have extensive experience in accessing a variety of water and chemical tanks.

UK Diving Services Ltd have recently been engaged on river bed survey operations by providing licensed survey boats for surveyors to access waterways as part of Network Rail scheduled rail bridge inspections. Our survey boats also second as safety vessels.

UK Diving Services Ltd undertook a diving scour survey of the piers at Wilford Bridge, Nottingham. The survey was part of the Nottingham Tram Project which involved sending divers to determine if the bridge footings were structurally sound thus allowing the original bridge to take the additional weight of the new wider bridge and carriageway to accommodate the new trams.

UK Diving Services Ltd provided PLA licensed safety boats and rescue boat cover during night time operations whilst operatives were working from an up and over cherry picker on the underside of the bridge arches at Reading. This operation was very short notice...our team was deployed and on site providing water safety services within 2 hours of instruction.

UK Diving Services Ltd were involved in the filming of a floating hot water spa on the river Thames navigation at Staines. Our company providing a film boat with qualified skipper for the camera and sound crew to film the Hot Tug and its designer whilst afloat.

UK Diving Services Ltd were recently invited by UMC International to provide a dive team and equipment to undertake the ABS hull survey of the offshore supply vessel MV North Truck. The underwater hull inspection was recorded in real time with digital cctv playback at Lowestoft docks in the presence of an approved ABS surveyor allowing the ship to continue its offshore operations in the North Sea on time.

Our commercial dive teams provided specialist underwater inspection services for this well known national attraction.

UK Diving Services Ltd undertook several underwater inspections within the theme park including ....underwater survey to the underside hull of one of the theme parks floating barges and an underwater examination of a faulty submersible pump which provides water to the rides.